Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Proposal for filter speedup

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:38:32 -0000
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 20:00, Olivier Biot wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> When we compile a dfilter, do we then replace filter strings with the
> matching header field ID(s)? If not, we may want to do so.
> 

If I understand your question, yes, field names in filter strings get
converted to a pointer to the header_field_info struct for that field.

--gilbert